This, I think, is going to be pretty timely. Just last night I was telling my mother how difficult--though necessary--it is for me to nurture a self-concept/identity as a citizen of the world who is foremost a Canadian. The difficulty is, of course, in identifying what exactly "Canadian" is. We cannot continue to define "Canadian" in terms of what it is not.

Canadian writers, politicians and intellectuals have tried for decades to eke out a suitable, though malleable, definition (of course, "Canadian" cannot be expressed in terms of ethnicity, religion, or genealogy). But how can something be malleable without being partial, simplifying, divisive or half-truth?

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